Tony Joe White Inspirational Quotes (3)

I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been very thankful of, that that kicked in, and that I could be free with the music.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.