I love the young people.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.