Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

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

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