I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.