A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.