Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

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 quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

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

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

Leave me alone. I'm fine.