When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.