Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.