A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.