People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

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.

Hair has always been important.

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