"My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing."
"I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing."
"For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade."
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."
"We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top."
"When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all."
"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
"When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?"
"I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music."
"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."
"I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake."
"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
"I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does."
"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
"Let them eat cake."
"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."
"Love the giver more than the gift."
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
"My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her."
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."