We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
Conservative values aren't really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is: It's an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.