It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

Well, I don't want no bald headed woman.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

A rock star never gets old!

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.