Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

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

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.

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.