We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.