I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

The Lord does not reject any one who comes to him.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

War is all and king of all

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.