One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.
There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.
I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.