Tom Jones (singer)

There's never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who's still pretty good at his job.

— Sir Tom Jones, in a social media post reacting to ITV's decision not to keep him as a full-time coach on The Voice UK.

"To say I was shocked is to put it mildly," he penned. "But my shock wasn't about the fact they had replaced me. My shock was about the way they did it."— Sir Tom Jones, from his 2016 memoir Over the Top and Back, describing his reaction to being replaced on The Voice UK.

I am trying to make sense of my emotions right now. We just felt like, the most purest of hearts. 85 years of every experience you can think of in this man's sponge of a soul, and he rinsed it out for us. And we bathed in it.

— will.i.am, describing Sir Tom Jones's emotional reaction in a The Voice UK clip

It’s hard for them to forge a way forward on their own. This horrific phrase ‘nepo baby’ is horrible because these kids didn’t ask to be born into this, they’re finding their own way in life.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones told The Times in an interview about her children and the ‘nepo baby’ label.

I didn't want to be domestic. I wanted to be free. I had my songs to sing, I had an ambition and it burned inside me. It was something I knew would take me out of the mountains. I knew I could see worlds beyond the Smoky Mountains.

— Dolly Parton, in her 1977 Rolling Stone cover story