I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

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.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.