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.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

Anger destroys your soul.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.

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.