You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.