You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.