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

"I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn."

"I've been in trouble all my life. I was born in trouble."

"It's like being a hooker. You stand there and you sing, and then you get paid. That's all it is."

"When you're singing, you're singing about life, about what's happening to you."