SC: I think one of the main things that has blessed my life over the years is the fact that I’ve been able to record songs that meet today’s needs and ills. Years ago, I started out by recording about mothers, and about how children should love their parents, especially their mom — because I didn’t know my dad that well. My father died when I was a child, so I didn’t know him. But my momma? Yes, different story. So, I sang by experience. I learned by observation, and I would sing about what was going on in the home — telling children, “Obey your parents. When you add it all up, the cost of love is no charge.” I’ve learned how to say and put it in a song, “Don’t drive your mother away. Don’t put her away simply because she’s not educated. Don’t put her in a home because of that.” I found myself saying things like, “Don’t ever lift your hands to strike your mother because she’s the one who gave you life. She gave you what nobody else could have given you.” She’s momma, mother, or whatever else you call her. Some call her nanna. But whatever you call her, never let it be an ungodly name and always be obedient. The very first sin that got us in trouble was the act of disobedience. I still preach and teach the same thing. We need more of that because, now, our mothers have gotten younger and younger. Fourteen years old. I know of a child who got pregnant at 11. The mothers have gotten younger, and babies are having babies now. […] Things, over the years, got worse, and worse, and worse. Parents need to also know that, if you don’t train your child, if you don’t talk to your son [and] your daughter at home, if you don’t chastise them at home — the policemen will.