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

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.

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.

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

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

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

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