But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

God doesn't like it when we ask Him for the smallest things, dare to make your dream so big that He can conveniently fit into it and make your dream come true.

Repentance is words, God forgives the kind.

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.