I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston.

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I loved Celine Dion. I loved Whitney Houston and these big powerhouse vocals.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna.

I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'

Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.

I would say Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' is up there - it's one of the best.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

I would have hated for my 'Drag Race' moment to have come down to lip syncing a Whitney Houston song.

I'm definitely inspired by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Lauryn Hill.

When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well.

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

I don't take karaoke seriously at all. I'm not the type of person who will go and belt out Whitney Houston.

I'm not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them.

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs.

I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.

I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can't be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and perfect and appeals to your mother and your grandfather.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

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