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'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

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