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 often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

I'm not psychic myself.

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.