Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

I was born with music inside me

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.