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I love the Ritz.
I came up in gospel.
Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.
On the sly, scoping for love.
I still have perfect diction!
I paid my dues; I certainly did.
I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
Women absolutely deserve respect.
R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
I really don't have any shelf music.
I don't do crazy things - I just don't.
Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.
There's a lot of great singers out here.
I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
When God loves you, what can be better than that?
I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.
I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.
The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
I like being married. It's an institution that I like.
Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.
I sing, and the musicians kind of fit things around me.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.
President Bush bestowed the Congressional Medal on myself.
I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.
You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.
The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question.
Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.
Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.
Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!
The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.
President Clinton, I sang at his post-inauguration party out in Maryland.
I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!
I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.
I like 'Bootylicious,' 'Survivor' - my little granddaughter loves 'Survivor.'
Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.
Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.