When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.