My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.