I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.