I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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.