Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.