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

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

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.

I really don’t think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that’s where they hung out with their friends.

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.

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

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

The Government’s first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date.

Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged.