Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.