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.

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

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

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

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

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.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.