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.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

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.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.