The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.