I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Great music is great music, period.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

I NEVER QUITNEITHER COPY BY CHITSOMETIMES THINGS SPLITI DON'T UNDERSTAND A BITLIFE HIT N HAS PITSTILL IN LIFE I FITAS A GIFT I ADMIT.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

Failure is an event-it’s not who you are. Don’t let that label get stuck on you. If one dream dies, dream another dream.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

Let us try for once not to be right.