Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

What they said to me was that they were doing it in honor of the Katrina evacuees. The music has been designed to reflect the musical influences of New Orleans. I like what they did. I like very much what they did.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

It's the right thing to do. Hopefully some of the other performers in town will follow suit.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.