I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.