Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

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 didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

I write, heal, paint and coach with the Archangels to create global change, one heart at a time.

Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?