Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.

Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.