I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

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

Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

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.

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.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.