They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

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

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.