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

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.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.