Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

It's nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.