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 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 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.

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

It's not hard to confuse love and hate.

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012).

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.