Las Vegas has the type of audience – and they haven’t changed since my father’s days – they’re still boring and bored. And there’s only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to. – Natalie Cole
I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: ‘Oh, she must be a very nice person’. – Natalie Cole
I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she’s great. It’s hard to come out of the group of Destiny’s Child and still kick some butt. – Natalie Cole
The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream – even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948. – Natalie Cole
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. – Natalie Cole
You shouldn’t have regrets. I’d say instead that I’ve learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they’ve also made me who I am today. – Natalie Cole
The worst I think that I ever was, when ‘Unforgettable’ had come out, and not long after that I was on – I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow. – Natalie Cole
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It’s – it’s amazing. – Natalie Cole
I couldn’t breathe. I – I went into – literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body. – Natalie Cole
I was pretty young, but because of that first record, ‘Cole Espanol,’ we took our first trip – well, my first trip – to Mexico. – Natalie Cole
I started saying, ‘I don’t want to be crazy anymore.’ I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. – Natalie Cole
It’s important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don’t think you really get the best stuff out of life until you’ve had the worst stuff. – Natalie Cole
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function – the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent. – Natalie Cole
I’ve always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I’ve always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. – Natalie Cole
I’d sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I’m not a pity-party person. – Natalie Cole
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. – Natalie Cole
I’ve always adored my father’s music, but ever since I’d started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad’s material. – Natalie Cole
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. – Natalie Cole
We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away. – Natalie Cole
Physically, I’ve seen a change in my life. No, I haven’t had a face lift or anything like that. I’ve grown. That’s God’s countenance. – Natalie Cole
We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn’t go too far. – Natalie Cole
We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren’t our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. – Natalie Cole
People said when I started, ‘Why don’t you just copy your father’s style?’ I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. – Natalie Cole
When I sang my father’s songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, ‘Can I measure up?’ – Natalie Cole
The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys. – Natalie Cole
