At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

All things are full of gods.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I want to be a Chief. I want to be a Chief for life.

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.