Darlene Love

“You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.”

“The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.”

“I wish I started out as a solo artist.”

“I love being married. I've been married three times.”

“When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.”

“I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.”

“When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.”

“My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.”

“There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.”

“A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.”

“I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.”

“With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.”

“When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.”

“In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.”