Bobby Womack
If you think things are going great and you say, man I gotta great job, you just gotta raise. The next minute, your momma dies. Life plays games with you.
If I didn't love it, I wouldn't do it, because the business side of it is so crazy. One minute they want you, next they don't.
If anybody rap, I did. I used to talk on all of my records; I didn't used to call it anything but telling people how I felt before I start singing. It's like in the doo-wop days; I came up through that. What if this generation heard that? They would think it was crazy.
I've had a pretty good career but I can't get a record company now. I don't see too much money from any of the records. I was very angry about that but I couldn't carry the anger around-it was killing me. Everybody has to reach their own destiny and I don't waste no time on negative energy.
I'm not going to go out there weighing 900 pounds.
I'll tell you a big secret. I used to be paranoid about everything, but especially about my voice.
I was talking to Ronald Isley and I was telling him they'll eat till they make themselves sick. Man, he takes requests and stays on stage for four hours.
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.
I start thinking of Marvin, Otis and all these people. The generation's gone.
I like to see it when people can grow up but not grow out.
I like it more when an artist take my song and don't try to do me. When they just take it to a whole 'nother level.
I know what I do and to keep from getting bored of it you gotta keep explorin.
I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.
I ain't tripping no more.
Don't let the business side, which is the cold side, dictate all your God-given talents for a dollar. It ain't worth it.
Damn! I love music, man. I'm not even workin' I'm partyin'!
But people's always callin' me crazy, so I'm gonna go with my people.
Ain't it weird how a person's life is so boring they gotta wait on you to get up to call you and then hang up? Well, I got my day goin' on now. I said, damn I wouldn't mind if they at least said hello, but just to call me at four in the morning to breathe down the phone.