I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.

I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.