I'd been in a vicious cycle ...

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
 Chaka Khan

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My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
 Chaka Khan
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
 Chaka Khan
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
 Chaka Khan
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
 Chaka Khan
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
 Chaka Khan