Quotes from Gladys Knight

I love giving. I love sharing.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

We should definitely be more careful about the things that we chose to do with our lives.

I like collaborations, and I like working with people. I do.

I have a faith that's unbendable as far as my Lord and Savior is concerned.

Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go to my room, or if we had to travel, I'd get in a car or a plane, whatever. But I didn't do anything. One day, this friend of mine said, 'Do you want to play some blackjack?'

God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I go to as many football games as I can.

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.

I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

With 'American Idol,' they're giving you a pass to get launched on, and it's up to you what you do with it.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.