I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.