If you don't run, you rust.

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.