Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.