i used to cook for richard pryor in the day. and then i stopped for a few years.farmers markets and we travel, we have the pots and pans, and we set up a kitchen. and i cook for the band, the crew, i would be cooking on the road. i can't stand bedroom service. >> it makes a difference. >> and plus, i am a diabetic. so i half to cook for myself, because i know what is in it. >> in a 1996 interview with oprah winfrey, you stunned the crowd and the clip, people can literally google it today, you talked about how you never thought that you would love to see your 45th birthday. as you sit here, you are a fabulous, can i say it? 79. >> almost 80. >> six months to 80. because my sisters all died in the early 40s. i knew that i wouldn't make it. i just knew, i said my turn is coming, right? and it never came. so each year, of course, i celebrate with them, they are with me, and i say i made it, girls, i'm almost 80. and i don't think that i would make it to be this age, it is wonderful. when you think all of your sisters, my mother, my father, everybody is gone. and i'm s