There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.