I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive.

I promise you that I will steal your heart and keep it in the prison of my love forever.

Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

...you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years.

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time, let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.