When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to b…

- Tony Joe White

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

- Tony Joe White

I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been …

- Tony Joe White