I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.