I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

I want to be a soul singer.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.