I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
[My mother] made the money to send me.
Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.
I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.