I haven’t stopped looking for the good in people. I’ve just accepted the fact that I’m not always going to find it.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn’t sell myself out.

Christina [Aguilera] sang her butt off –

I’ll perform all the way to the grave.

Every time I come to Cincinnati, it’s hot.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody...

I was very shy. I’m still shy.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Gypsy moths.

I’m still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I can’t do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I don’t tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home – that’s the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like...

[A source told Friedman:] LA Reid came backstage and said to Patti, ‘What a great song! Why haven’t you recorded it?’ … It’s on the album you’ve refused to do anything for.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

You don’t have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs – one for each year. I don’t want no diamonds, I don’t want no shoes, I don’t want no party. I want some...

I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orleans. I gave her a home today. I told her to move in with me because...

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

I’m 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I’m not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I’m pretty laid back.

There was nobody hating on nobody.

I’m so grounded, it’s sad.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We’re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I’m no different than you.

I don’t feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

They have the right name. They must be deaf if they don’t hear me.

When I was married, I wasn’t loving myself. Now I’m in love with myself. I will get married again.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white – it’s amazing that I’m able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I’m very shy in a crowd.

People with no humor, they’re outta my life.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don’t go there to party.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We’re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

I’m very spontaneous.

I’ve had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I’ve had, I’m happy that I’ve had them because it’s taught me to appreciate all the ups.

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn’t clap.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn’t know the answers because sometimes I was going through the...

I love Canadians because I don’t see very much racism in Canada.

Everybody goes through the same thing; it doesn’t matter what color you are. And Joss Stone just happened to wake up one morning with all this soul that had to come out.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

I’ve never been this embarrassed in my life. It’s the worst show I’ve ever done in my life.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

You’ve got to know business before you go to show business.

There’s not much longevity in music today. It’s so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I’ve never ever given you less than I can give. I’m gonna give you everything you deserve.