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I Remember Singing Around The House To Records That Were Playing. All Kinds Of Music. And The Great James Cleveland Was Often In Our House, And I Grew Up With His Sound As Well.

Be Your Own Artist, And Always Be Confident In What Youre Doing. If Youre Not Going To Be Confident, You Might As Well Not Be Doing It.

Music Changes, And I'm Gonna Change Right Along With It.

Women Have Broken Through The Glass Ceiling, And They're Now More And More In The Power Seats.

I Love Producing, Writing. I Rarely Write With Other Writers Unless I Have A Real Great Respect For Them. Like Burt Bacharach, Or Carole Sager, Or Stevie Wonder. Somebody Like Smokey - Like That. Otherwise, I Choose To Write Alone.