Quotes from Mavis Staples

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.