For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a persons soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.