Whitney Houston Quotes

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

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've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

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

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

I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

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.

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

Loneliness comes with life.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

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

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself
like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

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

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

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.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

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?

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

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

My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

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 was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

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.

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

Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

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

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

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