There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.