"I think you can't help but get bad ideas when you start working on a show, a record, or anything else. I think you even have to pursue those kinds of ideas. You have to go ahead and have all the possible and impossible ideas you can. Ideas that will never work, insignificant ones, crazy ones, twiste ones, and just plain dumb ones."

"You think that these movies are for kids, then you go to the movie and you see 'Beauty and The Beast' and you see Belle dancing with the beast and Angela and Mrs. Potts are singing 'Beauty and the Beast'. You cry. It doesn't matter if you're 8-years old or 78-years old. You cry, it's beautiful."

"With words, it's difficult to express things. But with music, it's easier to understand. I think that's why music is very powerful. It helps a lot of people go through some very difficult times."

"Sometimes you have no money, you're not successful, you have hard times, but you mean well and you are generous, and you have a good heart. That to me deserves everything."

"I think that generosity is the most important thing, and it was given to us and we have to try to benefit from it. We have to try to take it and build something around that."

"Whatever I have done over these years, my fans have put me where I am today. They have invited me into their homes, I sang for them for so many years, and they have supported me."

"My voice is the quickest, closest path between what I feel inside me, my emotions, my soul, my thoughts and dreams, and the world outside. I have no other reason for living, no other goal, and no other happiness."

"Sometimes you come through the darkness and back into the sunlight, and sometimes you come through to light itself. But whatever you do, I want you to keep your eyes on the light."

"I've been fulfilled emotionally, professionally, artstically, and I always will be. I love and I am loved. I sing and that is my happiness, and I thank heaven for it every day of my life."

"I know my fans are behind me. Even though I cant see you, I can feel you. Thank you for your words."

"I'm good at being happy. Happiness comes to me in waves, always unexpected and unexplainable."

"It's me who's demanding, but I also want it like that. There's no such thing as perfection, but I want it."

"You have to be thankful and not take anything for granted and say,
'Today's a beautiful day. Look at the sun.'"

"I carried a fully formed dream inside me. And I was ready to sacrifice anything or
go to any extreme to achieve it."

"The challenge isn't to sing the song, but to put my heart and soul into it."

"Love exists with as much intensity and as long as you believe in it."

"Music helped me to go through my happiness, go through my sadness, my worries,
my dreams. That's why I'm making music."

"I believe that you should never hide your happiness. It lights up and cheers the world.
To keep it only for yourself is to lose it."

"I loved bringing out emotions in people with my voice. To this day, the biggest
thrill in life for me is to move people with my voice."

"Every time I do something, it is entirely my whole self or not at all."

"I have a big personality. I'm intelligent, I'm strong. But you can't please everyone."

"It isn't material comfort and riches that create happiness, but what comes from inside you."

"There is no limit for me, and there never will be."

"I might say goodbye, but I'll never say adios."

"Life must, and always must, be beautiful. It's our greatest and only priority."

"I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance."

"I believe that in every misfortune there is good."

"There's a lot of things you have to go through in life. It makes you stronger."

"Honestly speaking, Rene loves me the most when I'm wearing nothing."

"Love has no age."

"The only failure is not knowing how to be happy".