I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

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

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

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.

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

You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

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