They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.

As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue.

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.