We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

I am a combination of my entire family.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.