I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.