I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

It's not an act, it's just my way.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

And at last she woke up in the middle of one warm night and said, "Yes, but now.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.