Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

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

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.

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.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.