I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.