Quotes About Celebration

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!

I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.

We need to celebrate our lives. One day, we're all going to be dead and gone, and be nothing more than a pile of ashes. This is one life we've got and the only way to live it is to live it up shamelessly and joyously.

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an incredible caliber. It's really, really awesome.

I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'

The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.

I really can't pinpoint why I celebrate the way I do. I just love it when I pick a wicket, and it comes naturally to me to express my joy in the manner that I do.

It's hard to pinpoint, but there's something really special about all-vocal music and Christmas music paired together. I'm not really sure what it is, but it's just a magical combination.

I think I can dance after a couple pints!

I love Pistol Pete and the pistols. Man, I just love to do that. I put on that Pistol Pete head and shoot those guns, that's fun.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

It was great to see the Berlin Wall come down.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.

One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.