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'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.