I like to make great albums.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

All I do is party.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

I was singing before I could talk.

I write about what I know.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

Sure I got a mouth on me.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

The people of Florida's 2nd Congressional District said, 'Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington.' I've taken their instructions very seriously.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the worlds heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Design isnt just about making things beautiful its also about making things work beautifully.

No, Borussia is not falling apart. It does not matter whichever players will leave. That is what the past has showed. The club has developed and actually improved despite big-name players leaving.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

If you cant clean up after yourself.. Theres no need for you to mess things up.. And expect another person to clean up behind you.

The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.

We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career.

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence Grandmother was that person to me.

My guess is there are more women in the TV industry then there are on Wall Street. But it's that same idea of having to play in a man's world and finding that balance without being always stereotyped as a bitch.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology cant figure out.

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?