Quotes from Patti LaBelle

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

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

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

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

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

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

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 crush your dream.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

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

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

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 same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

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

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

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

Tell Aretha I'll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

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