it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.