There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

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

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.

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

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

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.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.