Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Pain should not be wasted.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.