Quotes from Aretha Franklin

I wouldn't be without Google, and I love Facebook.

I came up in gospel.

Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.

Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.

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.

I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.

When I first started, I wore Ceil Chapman gowns. I've been wondering for years what happened to the Ceil Chapman line of clothing.

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

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

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

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Beyonce is a very hard-working woman. Astrologically, for whatever it's worth, she's a Virgo - like Michael Jackson, a hard worker.

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.

On the sly, scoping for love.

John Legend is, in my opinion, classic. He is one of the best finds that has come along in a long time.

You could call my piano my trademark, or one of my trademarks.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

I like being married. It's an institution that I like.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.