I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

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

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.