It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.
I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.