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 gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

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.