The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.