Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.