“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

I defy gravity.

They will only care when you’re gone.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Dilbar’ is very close to me. It was a turning point in my career.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

You will only be great at things you love to do don’t pursue a career in something you hate to do.

I think towards the end of my career, I’m the man. But right now, I’ve still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I’m not going to believe the hype.

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn’t see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute