And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Politics are not my arena. Music is.