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.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.

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

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.