My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light.

I am a child of God.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

With this face, I need all the deals I can get.

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.