To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

There's always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more.

My soul sings joyful praise to the Holy one.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I want to see more women as producers.

People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.