Vesta Williams

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.