If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.