I Think That If My Voice For

It Has Always Been, And Still Is, My Intention To Build A Playground In Central Park.

It Takes A Long Time To Get To Be A Diva. I Mean, You Gotta Work At It.

They Tell Me That It Will Be Hard To Find A Man Strong Enough To Love My Own Strength And Independence, And Not Worry About Being Mr. Diana Ross, But I Disagree. I Know Absolutely That That Man Is Somewhere Out There.

The Only Recording Studio Was In Motown - It Was Called Tamla/motown At That Time And We Used To Audition There Because Smokey Robinson Was At That Studio And Berry Gordy Was The President. I Remember Asking Smokey To Listen To My Group And He Did. For The First Couple Of Years We Were Just Singing Background. We Used To Back Up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells Was There Then, Marv Johnson, The Marvelettes, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, Junior Walker And The All-stars.

I'm From A Singing Family, But They're Not Professional Singers, Only Gospel - My Grandfather Was A Minister. I Started To Sing The Music That Was Out Then Because My Mother Used To Play It All The Time. It Was The End Of The '50s, The Beginning Of The '60s. There Was Frankie Lyman And The Teenagers, Etta James... We Used To Sit Outside On The Stoop And Sing. We Even Used To Put Our Radios And Record Players Outside.