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

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

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

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.