My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

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.