Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I was in chemical jail.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.