Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

I was born with music inside me

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of