You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.