Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.