Quotes

I write and sing about whatever I'm able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

I'm sick and tired of somebody saying 'I love you' with both arms up in the air

[on interviews] Oh, I do interviews, it's just that nobody wants to talk to me. I'm not that interesting.

I'm from West Virginia, I'm the first man in my family not to work in the coal mines

I'm not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with

What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain't a genre that somebody didn't record them in

I wouldn't know a pop chart from a Pop-Tart.

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it."

Value the people who value you!