I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

Everybody needs somebody.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.