I Only Wore Makeup When I Went

I Never Heard Nobody In My Audience Call Me Any Kind Of Names.

Like, My Mother Would Have Company Over, And I Would Sing So They'd Pay Attention To Me.

And I Don't Get Down On Nobody Else For Doing Whatever Else They Do. To Each His Own.

I Think They Saw Me As Something Like A Deliverer, A Way Out. My Means Of Expression, My Music, Was A Way In Which A Lot Of People Wished They Could Express Themselves And Couldn't.

It's Hard To Have A Friend When Your Name's A Household Word.