Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

You lying liar, " Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

I am a young guy, but I have a winning mentality.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.