He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.