If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back?