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

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

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

It feels so good to be happy.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

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

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