People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country music was always an influence on my kind of music.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I never expected to be anybody important.

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.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time