Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

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

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.

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

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.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.