If Nobody Can Learn From

You Can Be Up To Your Boobies In White Satin, With Gardenias In Your Hair And No Sugar Cane For Miles, But You Can Still Be Working On A Plantation.

One Day A Whole Damn Song Fell Into Place In My Head.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.

The Difficult I'll Do Right Now. The Impossible Will Take A Little While.

Singing Songs Like 'the Man I Love' Or 'porgy' Is No More Work Than Sitting Down And Eating Chinese Roast Duck, And I Love Roast Duck.