I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born

Happiness is a state of bliss.

if someone always finds our mistakes then we must be happy to know that there, in the world, is at-least someone who is concentrating his mind and spending his time to make us flawless or perfect.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.