Gladys Knight

I like collaborations, and I like working with people. I do.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.

I do know that on my mom's side, my uncle sang and had a gospel group. He also had a radio show he would do on Sundays with his quartet.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

I don't live in L.A. I live in Las Vegas.

I have a wonderful family!

The Lord tells us where we are going and tells us when we are coming.

I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.

I love giving. I love sharing.

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

I have a squash casserole that everybody, even my kids, love. I won't tell my kids how to make it.

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.

I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.

With 'American Idol,' they're giving you a pass to get launched on, and it's up to you what you do with it.

We should definitely be more careful about the things that we chose to do with our lives.

I've spent all of my life trying to get people to feel a passion for what I do.

I go to as many football games as I can.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

I have a faith that's unbendable as far as my Lord and Savior is concerned.

I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music, the way she sings, gives her that 'it' factor.