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"At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy."
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"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."
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