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

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

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

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.