When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

The best things in life are free

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.