If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.