My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.