I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Detroit is full of talent.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Divas need their furs!

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I will always dance in the street.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.