Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask, and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

It’s not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life’s purpose and mission.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

Why don't you say "What?" if you like to sleep with your own sister.

Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.