I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.