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.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

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

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.