Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

Some things will never change.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel.

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.