It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.