"You can be the best musician in the world, but if you can't get along with people, you ain't going nowhere."

"I don't need no one to tell me how to sing. I just open my mouth and everything comes out."

"I've been in love with a lot of men. But I've never been married to any of them."

"I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love.'"

"I've got to be myself, and I can't be myself unless I sing what I feel."