Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

You gotta love and learn and learn to live.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Find something that makes you want to give and give and give 'til it hurts.

Love is the only memory one never loses, Isaac.” His father had said. “Because even if one loses his mind the memory always remains in the heart.

God brought every one of us into this new time to challenge us.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

The brave find a home in every land.

Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.