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

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

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

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 had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

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.