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

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.

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.

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

I have read the last page of the Bible. It isall going to turn out all right.

In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.