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

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

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.