"I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that."

"I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing."

"For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done."

"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more."

"For me, music and life are all about style."

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature."

"I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent."