21 Quotes by Merry Clayton

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work