If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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

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

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.