I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.