Divas need their furs!

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Detroit is full of talent.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Divas need their furs!

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I will always dance in the street.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

You cant very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them too.

Disco music in the 70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

The morning after my high school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover in retrospect when looking back at the songs how my life is going!

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.

As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Different people work different ways.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.

Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.