R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

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.

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

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.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.