Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Love is indeed its own hallucinogenic affecting the mind, heart and mood

What you're willing to give tells you who you are. Not what you are willing to bargain for, or willing to be paid for - but what it is you are willing to give.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

You can't get saved if you don't play.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.