“It will shock many – I’ve lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.”

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice – both bad abuse and good abuse.

I mean, in rock music terms I’m like a dinosaur.

With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.

You don’t have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I had no musical training at all.

Life’s too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Oh my love, it’s you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I’m always Dancing with you in the summer rain

As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.

I woke up my pop in the middle of the night ’cause the boogie man’s under my bed.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

We don’t have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where’s the classic pop-rock showman?

I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be.

My pop is this big, huge man, nothing can hurt him. I went running into his bedroom like, ‘Daddy, Daddy, the boogie man’s under the bed!’ Pop opens one eye, he’s like, ‘Is the boogie man bigger than me?’ ‘

People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin