The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.