Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.