When you are a musician, when you are a singer, or whatever, you start out imitating the people that you love. And through that process, you find your own thing to do. So I definitely borrowed a lot from the people that I admired, Etta James, and Al Green, and all those people, but then you also bring something of your own to it.

-- Joan Osborne

An excerpt from an interview with Billboard's Soul Sisters Podcast