I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

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