“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, but when I was about 1...” — B. J. Thomas Quote

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, but when I was about 12 or 13, I fell in love with Jackie Wilson and Bobby Bland.

I don't care if people know I'm spiritual, but I'm just a regular guy.

I think the black R&B singers of my day were the best singers of my generation.

I had low self-esteem.

Chips and the Memphis Boys truly deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They were capable of doing any kind of music.

I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.