It feels so good to be happy.

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.

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

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

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

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

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.

I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight

You will only be satisfied only when you are working

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.