I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

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.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

I'm just tired and bored with myself.