I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to...

I think people really connect with the idea of someone who’s gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who’s an emotional eater.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there’s a point when something’s going to hurt you.

It’s really about being pleased with yourself.

I’m happy with the people that I have around me. And they’ve been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there’s someone you don’t hear from, it’s the person you want to hear from the most.

I don’t have a lot of friends.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I...

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I’m saying this will probably be my last tour. That’s truly the way I’m looking at it.

My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be...

We all have the need to feel special.

My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

I’ve never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

I don’t like to work out, and I get bored easily.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn’t a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age...

I’ve never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody...

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a...

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can’t let it all fall by the...

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I’d kiss the screen.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.

I get so much energy from the fans.

If I wasn’t singing, I’d probably be, probably an accountant.

There’s other things I’d like to do. I probably won’t tour for a very, very long time. It’s something that you feel inside and that’s the way I’ve been looking at everything.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they’re never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don’t think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it’s always been there. It’s been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

When I’m getting ready for a tour, I’ll work out with the dancers.

Being on ‘Good Times’ was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn’t my family.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it’s something that’s stressful, whatever it may be, they don’t eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I’m the...

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that.

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom ‘Good Times.’ My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn’t want to do the show. I...

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I’m a very competitive person. But I think that’s good. Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don’t really remember it that well.

I really don’t know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

I think it’s been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they’ve told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex… I think they...

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else’s style, their flavor. It takes a bit...

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat – I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.