For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

And for once i didn't look back.

Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.