The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn’t seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.
When you sing, you pray twice.
When I record somebody else’s song, I have to make it my own or it doesn’t feel right. I’ll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn’t know it!
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.
Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love.
I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life.
However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain’t nobody like Elvis. Never was.
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
You’re so heavenly minded, you’re no earthly good.
Because you’re mine, I walk the line.
You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.
I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.
Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.
The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks.