I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
