I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

This is the one and onlyfirmament

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

He traveled in order to come home.