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.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black