What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.