I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The beginning makes no sense whatsoever. It just, like, rhymes. And then all of a sudden I'll go into, I am an old woman named after my mother.

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.