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Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

I love Charles Fuller.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.