When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

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

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

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

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'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.