I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

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.