"I never took a singing lesson in my life."

"I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn. I try to get the sound of a horn."

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."

"I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was work…"

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