I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

It kills me to see people think that, show business is sex, drugs and rock and roll. And I have what you call a meet and greet. I do it before the show. But when I was doing it after the show especially, there would be people who would come back and said, OK, Smoke, where's the party?

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Everybody has their own soul.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.