You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.