I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.