The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
I want to be a soul singer.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
I should have my own publishing companies.
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... That wasn't me.
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.
