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You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.
I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.
I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.
The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.
I've never considered myself a locked-down straight person. I've had relationships with girls.
I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.
If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.
I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do
I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.
I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.
I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.
Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.
A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.
Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.
When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.
There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.
It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.
As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.
I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.