I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.