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1. The love of my life? I’m much too young to answer that question.
2. I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
3. I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
4. Well, Babyface brings his savoir faire to every project. He’s a very easy producer to work with, very detailed in listening to everything.
5. There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.
6. I don’t do crazy things — I just don’t.
7. For many years, I’ve wanted to do one, and I’ve always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, ‘Oh well. Christmas albums don’t sell,’ and things like that. But that’s not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.
8. I like Beyonce’s music — some of it, not all of it.
9. Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can’t please everybody, and as long as I’m comfortable with what I wear, I think that’s what’s important.
10. 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.
11. I like being married. It’s an institution that I like.
12. Art Tatum was a genius.
13. People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don’t get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It’s minimal now.
14. Men have always been gentlemen to me — responsible people with healthy attitudes.
15. Politics are not my arena. Music is.
16. Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
17. I sing, and the musicians kind of fit things around me.
18. I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You’re talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.
19. I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
20. I love the Ritz.