You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.