It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.
There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
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.
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.
We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.