Natalie Cole Quotations | Page 2

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.