Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and author.
Sometimes we need help from a god
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.
First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.
I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me. . . There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and. . . a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.
I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.