It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.