At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

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.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.