Explore Quotes by Tina Turner

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call 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.

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.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.