I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah! - Ray Charles

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically — like you were taking out my appendix.