Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.