God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.