I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.