I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

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.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides