You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I've never been with a woman, so I guess I'm straight, OK? But I'm straight enough to know the difference between right and wrong. I am straight enough to know that if you want to marry whoever you want to marry, you should be able to marry whoever you want to marry

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."