UPDATE: News coverage of today’s funeral in Oklahoma City

Jayson R at MTVnews transcribed the speech and wrote about the show…

“[These songs are for] problems that we’re going through … hard times — Who would ever have thought that these same songs would have to help me?…

People call me, they say, ‘Well, you need to do this, you need to do that,’ and about 50 people, a hundred people that I ain’t never talked to in the past three years call me out the blue, talking about, ‘I just wanna tell you that I’m giving you support and stuff.’ And I appreciate the support and all that, but don’t suggest what I’m supposed to do. ‘What you need to do, you just need to stop touring, you need to go home and clear your head.’ Go home to what, motherf—–?…

‘Because if they see you out, and you go outside and then the media catches it.’ Man, f— the media! Nobody can tell me anything about, you know, when they talk about celebrity lives and real lives and the difference between always being on TV — right now, you can’t tell me nothing.

And there’s nothing that she loved more than to come to the shows and scream louder than any fan, because she was my first fan that was screaming before anybody else, and my first manager,” he said. “If she was here, she would tell me to ‘get on that stage and kill it.’”