I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

Define yourself before someone does it for you.

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

Life is a dream, realise it.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.