Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

No woman will be licensed to preach in the Louisiana Presbytery as long as I'm a member of it!

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.