With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

The music business is strictly business.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.