Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.