I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here.

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.