Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.