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

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

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.

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

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

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