All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.

Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.