A biography for Tina Turnerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.”
“This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.”
“Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.”
“My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.”
“I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.”
“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.”
“You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.”
“I don't like to dwell on the past.”
“I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.”
“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.”
“I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.”
“I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.”
“My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.”
“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.”
“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.”
“In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.”
“I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'”
“Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.”
“There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.”