Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.

It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.