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My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together....

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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

It feels so good to be happy.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

I took back my life.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

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