If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.