I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston
I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston
I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney Houston
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
Whitney Houston
I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
Whitney Houston
Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
Whitney Houston
I’ve got some good saints out there – that’s right – that pray for me constantly. You’ve gotta have that! You do.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Whitney Houston
I’m a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
Whitney Houston
No one makes me do anything I don’t want to do.
Whitney Houston
I’m older, I’m matured… I’m looking forward to the years to come. Good years.
Whitney Houston
I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
Whitney Houston
What’s in your soul is in your soul.
Whitney Houston
I’m good where I am at this moment.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
Whitney Houston
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?
Whitney Houston
Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
I think over the years, being a mother, I’ve matured in so many ways.
Whitney Houston
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
Whitney Houston
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
Whitney Houston
I love to sing, but it’s just not fun anymore.
Whitney Houston
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.
Whitney Houston