You know, it's a long world.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.