I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Even when told to trust no one, the truth is, no one feels comfortable around people they cannot trust.

you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I have some really, really good friends, to whom I'm very close, that I'm not revealing anything to, and that's really hard.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.