So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
I was very shy. I'm still shy.
I'm very shy in a crowd.
I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
I'll perform all the way to the grave.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.
I'm so grounded, it's sad.
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.
