Whitney Houston

“Loneliness comes with life.”

“I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”

“I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.”

“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.”

“I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.”

“I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.”

“What's in your soul is in your soul.”

“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.”

“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”

“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”

“I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.”

“My daughter is my greatest inspiration.”

“In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”

“I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.”

“I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.”

“I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.”

“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.”

“When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.”