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

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

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.

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.