People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

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

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

You've got to change with the public's taste.