I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.