To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.