I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.