The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

You know hearts these days are cheap.

That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

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

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

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.