“It's a little like a Ray Charles concert, isn't it? Georgia!”

“Choppa knock yo face off, black shades Ray Charles”

“I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.”

“I started to sing like myself — as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while — when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”

“Charles: This is the Imus in the Morning radio program.
Imus: I'm hearin' you baby.
Charles: Yeah!
Imus: Where we at?
Charles: On WFAN New York.
Imus: Hear that.
Charles: You know what I'm sayin'?
Imus Yeah.
Charles: Seven o'clock Eastern Time, and time
ImusWhy are we talking like fourteen year old black children?
Charles Because we're racist?
Imus: Yes. Yeah.
Charles: Because we're stupid?
Imus: Beyond stupid. Senile and stupid. And lame
Charles: Oh, please. Good lord.”

“It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.”

“Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”

“This is Prince Charles & Camilla. Or, as I like to think of them, Rod Hull & Emu.”

“Like a flame in the night
Like a ghost in the dark
There's a ray, there's a light
There's a hope, there's a spark”

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.”