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I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Aretha Franklin

I like 'Bootylicious,' 'Survivor' - my little granddaughter loves 'Survivor.'

Aretha Franklin

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Aretha Franklin

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

Aretha Franklin

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

Aretha Franklin

I really don't have any shelf music.

Aretha Franklin

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

Aretha Franklin

I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.

Aretha Franklin

We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.

Aretha Franklin

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Aretha Franklin

Women absolutely deserve respect.

Aretha Franklin

I don't do crazy things - I just don't.

Aretha Franklin

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Aretha Franklin

The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.

Aretha Franklin

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

Aretha Franklin

Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I - we'd been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?

Aretha Franklin

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Aretha Franklin

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

Aretha Franklin

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Aretha Franklin

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Aretha Franklin

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Aretha Franklin

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Aretha Franklin

I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.

Aretha Franklin

I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Marion Williams. I've sang for Lionel Hampton.

Aretha Franklin

I still have perfect diction!

Aretha Franklin

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Aretha Franklin

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

Aretha Franklin

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

Aretha Franklin

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Aretha Franklin

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

Aretha Franklin

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Aretha Franklin

My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.

Aretha Franklin

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

Aretha Franklin

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Aretha Franklin

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You're talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.

Aretha Franklin