Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

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.

Set yourself free from the deception of miracle focused gospel

We can't remember things from our future

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.

Everyone needs a touch.