I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.