There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. -Natalie Cole Travel
I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. -Natalie Cole Thankful
It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. -Natalie Cole Marriage
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing. -Natalie Cole Amazing
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. -Natalie Cole Famous
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 Failure
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. -Natalie Cole Failure
I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. -Natalie Cole Faith
My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure. -Natalie Cole Failure
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me. -Natalie Cole Faith
I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band. -Natalie Cole Dad
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 Death
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 Health
