Don't compromise your self, you're all you got..

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..

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything..

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

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, wit….

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly..

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer..

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

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [scre….

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself..

I love being a star more than life itself..

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago ….

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?.

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's a….

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch s….

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that ….

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable..

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?.

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... I don't ….

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

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can..