Cher spoke to British publication 'The Guardian' about an array of subjects including drugs, swearing and "odd" Phil Spector.I process songs through my feelings. Music doesn't really go through my brain. It just goes… somewhere else. But there have been a couple songs that I had to be persuaded to do, and they turned out to be great hits. So I obviously don't know everything [about songwriting] all the time.
I learned all my swear words from my [British] producer Mark Taylor. "W*nkers!" "T*ssers!" He and [her late ex-husband and musical partner] Sonny [Bono] are my favourite producers I've ever worked with.
Phil Spector was always odd. I met him when I was 17 and he was in his 20s. I once went to do a background vocal with Harry Nilsson on a John Lennon album. We were walking down the hallway in the studio, and a chair flew out into the hallway and then John was storming out. I didn't see a gun, but I'd heard about Philip waving a gun in the studio… He was very, um, mercurial. His mother and father were first cousins and he was just very strange.
I chewed two Benzedrine when I was 14. Drugs just weren't for me. I can't even drink coffee. I also took one Tuinal – my friend said; "Let's take this and go dancing." And I just passed out. My friends left me in the car in the parking lot and they went in and danced. I didn't wake up until the next morning.
My daughter [Chastity]'s sex change gave me a deeper – a visceral – understanding of gender and sexual politics. But it took me a little while. I had friends who changed their gender, but it took Chaz going through it for me to really feel it.
Hillary Clinton would make a fine president. I also think that Bill would be an awful lot of help. It's nice to have someone whose husband has been a president, and who herself is so smart and so engaged and so politically savvy.
Leaks hurt me. Someone leaked a song [Lady] Gaga and I did for my new album – and it wasn't even the finished version. And then another new song was leaked last November by some DJ in Michigan. We couldn't come out with it as a single at the time – it wasn't ready – and that was quite upsetting.
Our current congress is Satan. They've forced women in America into a terrible place. Since Roe vs Wade, we've had things taken away, and our human rights have just been totally demolished.
I love being a woman. If I woke up tomorrow and I was a man, I would freak out. I wouldn't be able to do it.
You don't do a movie for an Academy Award. Meryl [Streep] taught me that. I've won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Golden Globe. It's just a bonus if you happen to get one. I think that as long as I can have a good time doing what I do, that's the only important thing.
I was the first woman to show my navel on TV. That was on Sonny's and my TV show in the 70s. I'd match it with anybody's today.
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