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.
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
When I think about country music, I think about America.
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful.
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.