"The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them."

(Billy Paul, nato Paul Williams, cantante; Filadelfia, 1º dicembre 1934 – Blackwood, 24 aprile 2016)