Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.