Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...

I am attracted to myths.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

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

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.

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