I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.