It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
Good music is good music.
Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.