The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.