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.

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

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

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

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