The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

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

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

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

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