Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.