Women absolutely deserve respect.

Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.

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

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it.

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.