Natalie Cole

“I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'”

“My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.”

“The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.”

“The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.”

“I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.”

“My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.”

“I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.”

“I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.”

“I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.”

“Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.”

“I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.”

“When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.”

“I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.”

“I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.”

“I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.”

“I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.”

“There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.”

“It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.”

“I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.”

“Aretha Franklin does not like me.”