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

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.