I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

I love the music business very much.

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

There was no one left to speak for me.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.