I grew up in Louisiana, and I grew up with a dysfunctional family with some very serious abuse from my stepfather, who could be a very beautiful person on one hand and be terrible on the other, so it leaves your soul troubled as a child.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.