Do more than be fair: be kind.
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'
If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.
You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.