Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

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

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.