I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.