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I'm Not One Of Those People That Goes Into Details Of My Personal Life On National Tv To Get Attention. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid.

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I'm Not One Of Those People That Goes Into Details Of My Personal Life On National Tv To Get Attention. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid.

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I'm So Thankful That I've Received The Answer That Heaven Has Sent Down To Me You Treated Me Kind Sweet Destiny And I'll Be Eternally Grateful

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I Want To Collaborate With Me 'cause I've Done So Many Collaborations That After A Certain Point Unless You're Really Working With A Certain Caliber Of An Artist, There's No Point [to Collaborate].

Father, Thanks For Reaching Out And Lovingly,saying That You've Always Been Proud Of Me,i Needed To Feel That So Desperately,you're Always Alive Inside Of Me.

I Can Do A Reddish-brown Or Brown Lip, But Not A Bright Red. I Just Don't Look Good In It. Over The Years You Learn Certain Things That Don't Look Good On You, And That's One Of Them For Me.

Right Now Jack Lives With Me. Jack Is My Jack Russell. I Also Have A Yorkie Named Ginger, But Jack And Ginger Can't Be In The Same Place At The Same Time Because She Is Very Jealous. Even If Jack's Not In The Same State, She Would Growl If She Heard His Name.

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Forget The Image, Forget The Ensemble, Forget The Rumours, Forget The Short Skirts, The Big Hair, Whatever! I Owe This To The Fans And I Will Never Forget You So I Want To Accept This Award On Behalf Of All Of You.

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I Love "frosty The Snowman." My Family And I Like To Go On A Sleigh Ride With A Two-horse Sleigh In Aspen, So We All Scream Different Songs At The Top Of Our Lungs. I Hope It Doesn't Scare The Horses.

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I Work Myself Into The Ground. But I Think I'm A Nice Friend And A Good Person, And I Try To Do My Work As Best I Can.

If Critics Have Problems With My Personal Life, It's Their Problem. Anybody With Half A Brain Would Realize That It's The Charts That Count.

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After Every Storm, If You Look Hard Enough, A Rainbow Appears.

It Seems As Though I've Always Been,somebody Outside Looking In,well, Here I Am For All Of Them To Bleed,but They Can't Take My Heart From Me,and They Can't Bring Me To My Knees,they'll Never Know The Real Me.

When I Saw You, When I Saw You I Could Not Breathe, I Fell So Deep. When I Saw You, When I Saw You I'd Never Be, I'd Never Be The Same.

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My Father Identified As A Black Man. No One Asked Him Because He Was Clearly Black. But People Always Ask Me. If We Were Together, People Would Look At Us In A Really Strange Way. It Sucked. As A Little Girl I Had Blond Hair And They'd Look At Me, Look At Him, And Be Disgusted.

I Loved Jordan. He Was One Of The Greatest Athletes Of Our Time.

See, I'm Looking For A Man That'll Rub Me Slow, Make Me Sing Real High When He Goes Down Low.

I'm The Queen Of Festivities, That's All I Can Say.

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One Doesn't Remain A Teenager Forever.

I Can Make It Through The Rain, I Can Stand Up Once Again, On My Own, And I Know, That I'm Strong Enough To Mend, And Every Time I Feel Afraid I Hold Tighter To My Faith, And I Live One More Day And I Make It Through The Rain.

I Am Thinking Of You In My Sleepless Solitude Tonight.

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In This World, I Call The Shots And I Think I Know Best.

I'm Experimenting With My Voice. Every Day I Do Different Things With It, And If I Feel It's Appropriate I Do It On The Record.

You Talk To People And They Seem Really Nice And Then You Read What They Write And It's Very Disillusioning. You Have To Deal With How People Let You Down In Terms Of That. Because I Think I'm Basically A Nice Person And I Think I'm A Real Person, And A Lot Of People Aren't.

If You Believe In Yourself Enough And Know What You Want, You're Gonna Make It Happen.

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We're All A Little Wacko Sometimes, And If We Think We're Not, Maybe We Are More Than We Know.

I'm Not Great At Putting My Hair Into A Bun, But I'll Do It If I Have To.

I Know You're Shining Down On Me From Heaven, Like So Many Friends We've Lost Along The Way. And I Know Eventually We'll Be Together, One Sweet Day.

I Used To Be Able To Slim Down Just By Exercising More, But That's Changed.

Whenever I Watch Tv And See Those Poor Starving Kids All Over The World, I Can't Help But Cry. I Mean I'd Love To Be Skinny Like That But Not With All Those Flies And Death And Stuff.

The Minute I Started Addressing My Feelings, I Actually Came Out Of Very Negative Situations.

I Do Not Think I Reinvent Myself. Wearing My Hair Differently Or Changing My Style Of Dress Is Playing Dress-up. I Don't Take It Too Seriously.

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You Don't Have To Be Doing Vocal Acrobatics Or Singing All Over The Scale To Have Soul.

I'm Really Fortunate. I'm Really Happy, And I'm Really Really Lucky To Be Where I Am.

I've Seen The Real Extreme Diva Behaviour And I Don't Think That's Who I Am.

I Still Get Nervous Sometimes Before Performing.

So Many I Considered, Closest To Me,turned On A Dime And Sold Me Out Dutifully,although That Knife Was Chipping Away At Me,they Turned Their Eyes Away And Went Home To Sleep.

Don't You Know That You're Blowing My Mind? What You Do To Me I Can't Describe. Baby, I Can't Hold Back Anymore. I Just Can't Conceal It. You're The One I Really Adore.

If You See Me As Just The Princess Then You Misunderstand Who I Am And What I Have Been Through.

Being A Mother Is Probably The Hardest Job In The World. I Feel Like, In A Lot Of Ways, Children Come Into The World To Teach Us.

Something In Your Eyes Captured My Soul, And Every Night I See You In My Dreams. You're All I Know. I Can't Let Go.

Apparently I Don't Do Stairs, I Won't Walk On Carpet And I Refuse To Walk On Grass. How Do I Do To Get Around, Hover?

I'm Far From Perfect. I'm Still Learning. I Overworked Myself, And I Paid The Price. I Consider The Breakdown A Breakthrough. I Needed To Hit Rock Bottom. I Needed To Understand The Cost Of Pushing So Hard; Fighting So Hard Against The System.

Suffered From Alienation,carried The Weight On My Own,had To Be So Strong,so I Believed,and Now I Know I've Succeeded,in Finding The Place I Conceived.

It's Hard To Be Someone That People Talk About And Write About, You Know? They Don't Know Me.

It's A Long Road When You Face The World Alone, When No One Reaches Out A Hand For You To Hold. You Can Find Love If You Search Within Your Soul, And The Emptiness You Felt Will Disappear.

I'm Not Vain, I'm Insecure.

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