I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.