Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.
I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
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.