Pastoral Resources

Humanity is the sin of God.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

I miss my singing career very much.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.