I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

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.

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

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

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