I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it