It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

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

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

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.