I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.