I can't eat processed food.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Play with me and you play with fire.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

And I think THAT'S what we need to be pursuing with our lives: learning to be more skillful at coping with our minds.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.