I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.