I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money

To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Just imagine how suggestive things are.

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

Become acquainted with every art.