I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You're talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.