I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

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 get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money.