Stay away from trouble when you can.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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