I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.