You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

When you sing, always tell the truth.