Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

All music comes from God.