I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

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.

I never had peace of mind.

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.

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.

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.