“I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.”
“Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.”