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.

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

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.

life is a continous journey of transformation

Wisdom of the Ages "News People" Always joking around and happy. I guess that proves that ignorance really is bliss.

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.