40 Whitney Houston Quotes

* I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

* 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 decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

* You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

* 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.

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

* 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 believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

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

* 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?

* My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

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

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

* No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

* I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

* 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. Loneliness comes with life.

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

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

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

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

* I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

* Loneliness comes with life.

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

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

* I'm good where I am at this moment.

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

* What's in your soul is in your soul.

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

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

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

* I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

* 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.

* Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

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