I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

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.

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.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

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.