It Takes A Long Time To Get

The Only Recording Studio Was In Motown - It Was Called Tamla/motown At That Time And We Used To Audition There Because Smokey Robinson Was At That Studio And Berry Gordy Was The President. I Remember Asking Smokey To Listen To My Group And He Did. For The First Couple Of Years We Were Just Singing Background. We Used To Back Up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells Was There Then, Marv Johnson, The Marvelettes, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, Junior Walker And The All-stars.

My Name, Diana Ross, Is My Name And Nobody Should Be Able To Use That For Exploitative Purposes But Me.

You Can't Just Sit There And Wait For People To Give You That Golden Dream. You've Got To Get Out There And Make It Happen For Yourself.

I Really Don't Think That Detroit Was Any Different Than New York Of Boston Or Philadelphia. Kids Always Wanted To Listen To Music Outside Because That's Where They Hung Out With Their Friends.

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