But When I Went On The Stage

I Try To Be A Guide For People, To Make Their Darkness Bright And To Make The Pathway Light, And Never To Condemn Or Control Or Criticize.

I Also Like The Banging Piano - That Old Good-time Piano.

I Think They Saw Me As Something Like A Deliverer, A Way Out. My Means Of Expression, My Music, Was A Way In Which A Lot Of People Wished They Could Express Themselves And Couldn't.

They Shoulda Called Me Little Cocaine, I Was Sniffing So Much Of The Stuff! My Nose Got Big Enough To Back A Diesel Truck In, Unload It, And Drive It Right Out Again.

God Would Be A Very Selfish God If He Gave All The Soul To One Race. ... When One Sings From The Heart And It Reaches Another Heart, That's Soul.