I have never gotten into the label thing.

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

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'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.

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?

When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.

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