Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.