You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Roses are red Violets are blueI don't go on this accountSo go away SHOO!

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.