My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

We all deserve to have a relationship with God

That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.