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

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

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.

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.

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