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"The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer."
"Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes."
"The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about."
"I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own."
"People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones."
"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide."
"Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt."
"I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus"
"I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down."
"Well, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, ‘What I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do.’ And he said, ‘It is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,’ he asks, ‘will deliver me from this body of death?’ And he answers for himself and for me, ‘Through Jesus Christ the Lord.'"
"Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here."
"I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television."
"I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about."
"Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free."
"God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed."
"The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high."
"I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on."
"All music comes from God."
"Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be."
"What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?"