 Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. |
| If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying. |
| I think things happened the way they did for a reason. |
| I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. |
| My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride. |
| But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment. |
| The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. |
| So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. |
| I just sing. You have to use it. |
| When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen. |
| Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while. |
| I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. |
| Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did. |
| I really like listening to music in my car. |
| Every morning I wake up and thank God. |
| When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time. |
| I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants. |
| So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years. |
| We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men. |
| I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. |
