Cher answered some media questions backstage at the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday (October 19), sarcastically noting that answering questions is “my favorite thing to do.”
In her speech, Cher criticized the Rock Hall for waiting 35 years to induct her after she qualified, admitting: “I have a love-hate relationship. [with the Rock Hall]because I thought, “You know, what do I have to do to get into this place?” What do you have to do to be a part of it?
Cher said that although she wanted to tell David Geffen to “please take this letter back” (she said that David Geffen wrote a letter to the Hall of Fame Foundation on her behalf), she said that in the end she was satisfied with the matter. Satisfied with the results. “I feel great. I can say I’m glad I joined,” she said. “If I didn’t [think] Otherwise I wouldn’t be here.
The singer looked back on a 60-year career dating back to her work with her late ex-husband Sonny Bono and her time with Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew, where she said she had struggled with the idea of a legacy. “I [didn’t] Rather, I have my own point of view – I’m just too busy living my life to think about it,” she said. “I think about it every minute, everything. I think of myself as a bumper car, and when I hit the road, I reverse and turn in different directions because I won’t stop doing what I love.
So what about Sonny and Cher going to a rock concert one day? “I think we deserve it,” Cher told advertising billboard. “Even if we weren’t exactly rock ‘n’ roll, we represented music. I know it wasn’t like… we were corny, but we were very progressive for what was going on at the time, so, I don’t know. I didn’t expect to get in.
During her speech, Cher had this message for all the women watching around the world: “The one thing I never do is I never give up,” she explained. “I’m talking to women, okay… we’ve been down and out, but we keep pushing, we keep moving forward, we matter. We’re special.
