Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.