There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.