I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?"

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.