I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.