You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.
I'm a dreamer.
I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.
No, nothing really upsets me.
I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
My children come first and the career comes in around that.
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
