What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

The purpose of art is to stop time.