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

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

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