Martha Reeves

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.