I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

I am an isolationist.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.