I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.