I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.