I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.