As I got older, my voice got better.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.