Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Last word in lonesome is me.

Stay busy and take care of your own business.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.