It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

It seems like everyone's listening to fiddles and banjos.

Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

But what reality was ever made by realists?

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.