Gladys Knight

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

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

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?

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

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

Love is what makes the world go around. I know it's a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives.

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.

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 love giving. I love sharing.