I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.

You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater." "This is a scarf." "You look tarred and sweatered.

I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.