On the stage I’m not really Etta James, you know? I’m Jamesetta, and I’m just doing what I really, really love to do.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering:and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

No, no, no, no — you will have your chance, Guido, (angrily) you will have your chance! – Luigi

I need to sing and I love to travel.

They would be able to tell that most of my friends are girls, and that I’m not a very organized person. The only other thing that would be pretty obvious is that I like to play a lot of games because I have several gaming cards, but beyond that there’s really not a lot they would be able to tell.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

I know I’m 25 now, but there’s still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.