I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

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.

I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.