If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I'm not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.