I've done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I've been a singer. That's it.
[on his career] For the amount of talent I had--and I couldn't dance, act or tell a joke--I enjoyed a tremendous career.
[on his professional life versus his home life] I'd perform with the world's greatest artists [on television], and then come home to the world's greatest family.
The audience knows I'm not going to do anything after all these years to upset them.
I don't work at home at all. Once you know a song too well, you start to fool around with it. At the session, when the band's working on the arrangement, I learn the tune right there.