"Somebody once said we were a bunch of junkies. Well, I don't know about that. But we sure were hungry."

"You can be the best musician in the world, but if you can't get along with people, you ain't going nowhere."

"I never had a mother, never had a father, never had a home, I never had a husband. I just had me."

"I never had a publicist. I never had a press agent. I just had my voice."

"And nosy me, I went and opened [the fishing kit] to see what was inside. And those things are so real, it scared me to death. I must have threw it a mile. You thought he brought home a box full of bug…"