I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

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

All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

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

If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.