Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

At 55 I think I'm almost ready to grow up a bit - stay young at heart, be open to possibilities and play when you can

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.