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.

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.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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

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.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.