Whitney Houston Quotes

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

I've had enough of being public property.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.