You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.
I'm no different than you.
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
I'm very spontaneous.
I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
