With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

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.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.

If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

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.