When Gretchen took off, the labels started asking Joe 'What else do you have?' ... And he said, 'I have Bobby Pinson - this is the most real thing I have.'

The one thing you can say is that we all have our own thing that we've been true to and it was just a matter of time - we were going to do it whether you let us officially or not, ... I've been an artist for 12 years, I've just been street legal for about five months.

Doing them the way I heard them the day I wrote 'em was what I wanted to do, ... And fortunately it's come to pass.

And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.

After Katrina, we had to come and show our support for the city.

We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. That's not true.