Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.
My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.