"The only thing I ever wanted was to sing."

"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or somethin…"

"I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just live for today."

"I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse."

"I don't think I'm a genius. I just sing the way I feel."