"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."

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"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."

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"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."

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