Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

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'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 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.

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

We write to share our thoughts and our lives.

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.

Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

I like to know where the camera is.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.