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

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

There can be miracles when you believe.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.