I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?