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

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

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

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

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.