Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are