Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Go to bed, Cammie,” my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother. “No,” I said, sounding exactly like my aunt.

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.