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

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.

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

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

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

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.