“That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good perform…” — Roberta Flack

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

I've been overweight all my life.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.