The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

I'm in love with my second cousin.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.