Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.
The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one. ' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
There's still time to change the road you're on. . .
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
I'm the kind of person that as long as you respect me and don't distract me before the game, then I'll respect you in return and accommodate you after the game. Sometimes the situation dictates that I talk, but everybody should understand I'm not going to talk every day, whether we're in first place or last place.