Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.