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I sing because I'm happy.
I can't eat processed food.
I'm not trying to be a pop singer.
I just want to give my love to God.
Play with me and you play with fire.
I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!
I'm coming back to give the people what they want.
Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.
Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.
I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.
I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.
[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.
I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.
I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.
Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.
I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.
Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.
God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...
Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.
Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.
Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.
I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.
I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.
I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.
I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.
My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.
I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.
For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.
We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.
Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.
Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.
I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.
When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.
I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.
I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance.
My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.
I'd love to get into one of Tyler Perry's movies - play a little role, have a little character. I don't care. But more than two lines! More than two words!
I'll be staying in touch and keeping my fans and friends updated on my progress. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road to give the people what they want.
When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.
Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.
When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.
I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.
Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.
My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.