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.

God bless the child that's got his own.

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I never sing a song the same way twice.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

When you sing, always tell the truth.