Quotes By Whitney Houston

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

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.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

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'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

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

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

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

Loneliness comes with life.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

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

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

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've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

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.

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

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

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

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