I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.