I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

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

What's love got to do with it?

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.