Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.
My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.
Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.
First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.
Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.
I've written about one song on several different albums.
I started out doing covers.
Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.
Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.
That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.
I had a fear of being alone.
I think I sound like Barry White.
Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.
None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.
That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.
So you're back from outer space.
Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.
People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.
I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.
I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.
God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.
The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.
