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.

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.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

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