The road to love is full of danger signs.

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.