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

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma'am.

When I die and I'm lucky enough or fortunate enough and brave enough throughout my life to get into Heaven and I see Octavia Spencer sitting there then all is good.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist