Chaka Khan Quotes

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

I had to find my own path, and in some ways, it's been a good thing.