Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me..

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or St….

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth..

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats..

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I gre….

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it..

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses..

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me..

Politics are not my arena. Music is..

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five..

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion..

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me..

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Beca….

On the sly, scoping for love..

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots..

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is..

I've never recorded anything I didn't like..

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things..

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that..

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome..