Nobody Likes To Be Picked On. Nobody.

I Decided Long Ago, Never To Walk In Anyone's Shadows. If I Fail, If I Succeed...at Least I Live As I Believe. No Matter What They Take From Me, They Can't Take Away My Dignity. Because The Greatest Love Of All Is Happening To Me. I Found The Greatest Love Of All Inside Of Me. The Greatest Love Of All Is Easy To Achieve. Learning To Love Yourself...it Is The Greatest Love Of All

I'm Tired Of People Taking Off Their Clothes.

In Grammar School Some Of The Girls Had Problems With Me. My Face Was Too Light. My Hair Was Too Long. It Was The Black-consciousness Period, And I Felt Really Bad.

I Feel So Blessed To Just Have Done What I Had Done. To Be Able To Just Use What God Has Given Me Is A Blessing. You Know, Never Mind The Grammys, Never Mind The Records, Never Mind All Of That. Just To Be Able To Sing.

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.