I'm not trying to become popular.
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
Good music is good music.
Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white.
We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.