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

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

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

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

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

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

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