Quotes from Whitney Houston


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I'm good where I am at this moment.


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


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.


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


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


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


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


What's in your soul is in your soul.


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'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'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.


Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.


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


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


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