Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.

I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.