My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

You just have to be open to the opportunities as they come to you.

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

The older you get, the more you know about certain things.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.