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.

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

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

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.

I want to be a soul singer.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.