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

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.