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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.
Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.
To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
Life is about embracing the things that make you different, which is often an uncomfortable thing to do.
I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.
I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.
Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.
I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.
I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.
Today I decided to sing in my underwear! No one seemed to mind! #loveyoufromtheinsideout. #artforfreedom
As long as you're fierce and you have that inner confidence with yourself, you can get through anything.
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.
I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.
May I never loose the Wonder, Oh the Wonder of Your Mercy! May I sing Your Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen!
Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.
The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.
I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?
Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.
Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.