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For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.