“My children come first and the career comes in around that.”

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

I think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.

I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.

My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.

If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I’m not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.

I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.

I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.