I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

In truth, women are the strong ones.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind