I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.