There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.