“I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.”

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

And I’ve been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I’m an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin’on sixty-five.

I’m a big woman. I need big hair.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

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

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

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.

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.

I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.

I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.

Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.

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

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account.

When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it’s the objective.

The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.