My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

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

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.

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