“There are diamonds in the red clay of northeast Alabama. Delaney is one of them.”

“We all have memories that are good, and some that are not so good. But if we focus on the ones that make us smile, it’s easier to forget the ones that don't.”

“Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.”

“Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.”

“I read so much, in fact, that one of my exes used to complain that I spent all my money on booze and books, which inconveniently couldn't be bought at the same locations.”

“It all began with a fuck. What doesn't? I fucked the wrong person; I fucked up the right one; somebody played me a song. It changed my whole life, that song. That's why I later went to so much trouble to find the guy who wrote and sang it.”

“[...] nothing comes from comfort but the fear of losing it, and that's exactly where my generation made its big mistake. Yet discomfort's no good either. There's just no winning, is there? Do it one way and lose your soul; do it the other way and lose your livelihood. You guys who run the world, you've got all the bases covered.”