Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

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.

It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years.

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Empty yourself to fill the void with love.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.