If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Don't ever permit anyone or anything to sail the ship of your life. No one can be a better captain of your ship than yourself. But you must not ignore to listen to your positive inner voices.

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.