I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "I—" I hung up.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.