“If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.”

When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.

If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.

I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..

You are what you settle for.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…

What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!

You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.

Life doesn’t move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

I’m taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then – now [I’m] a completely different person.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.