I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

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

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

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

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies.

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.