I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I'm very spontaneous.

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