If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.