I Have A Lust For Life.

Take A Little Time Out Of Your Busy Day To Give Encouragement To Someone Who's Lost Their Way.

It's Not Fair That Our Name Can Be Used In Any Newspaper, Any Article Connected With Anything, And We Can't Really Fight About It. It's Like Any Newspaper That Might Take A Picture Of You, Bad Or Good, And Sometimes They're Awful Pictures, And They Can Use Them Without Your Approval And You Can't Do Anything About It.

If I'm With A Man I'm Soft And Buttery.

I'm From A Singing Family, But They're Not Professional Singers, Only Gospel - My Grandfather Was A Minister. I Started To Sing The Music That Was Out Then Because My Mother Used To Play It All The Time. It Was The End Of The '50s, The Beginning Of The '60s. There Was Frankie Lyman And The Teenagers, Etta James... We Used To Sit Outside On The Stoop And Sing. We Even Used To Put Our Radios And Record Players Outside.

My Life Has Often Been Described As 'from Rags To Riches' But In Fact, The Ross's Were Never Raggedy.