The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Detroit is full of talent.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.