Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of 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.

When I'm having a rehearsal and there are new guys who come in to try out for the job, I always let my conductor rehearse them. Because I don't want the guy to get bent out of shape, because I walk in.

Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

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

Goodbye don't mean gone.

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