What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

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

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.