I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

Invariably, we all are 'MIND LORDS'.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Players win games, teams win championships.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.