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I'm very spontaneous.
I'm very shy in a crowd.
I'm so grounded, it's sad.
I'm no different than you.
I was very shy. I'm still shy.
I'll perform all the way to the grave.
Many a false step is made standing still.
I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.
I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.
Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.
Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.
I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.
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.
God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.
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 clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.
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've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
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.
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'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.
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 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.
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 crabs.
Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.