Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

I fooled around and fell in love.

Im as country as a dozen eggs.

I must have been through about a million girls, I'd love 'em and leave 'em alone. I didn't care how much they'd cry.

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.

I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.