Quotes By Tina Turner

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

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

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

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 was always attracted to science fiction movies.

My parents separated when I was younger.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I am attracted to myths.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

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

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Sometimes we need help from a god.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

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

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

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.

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