Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.