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I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

Country music has the great stories.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

It feels so good to be happy.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

I took back my life.

I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,

The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.