What was it about my obsession with romance that always made me feel embarrassed? Like it was a silly, girlish thing to obsess about. In reality, it was what we all wanted, right?

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

When you smile, a bird finds her wings to fly.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.