Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
Soul is a feeling, not a color.
When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.
When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.
It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.