I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.

I don't take my fans' love and dedication for granted.

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.

I am a child of God.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing but you keep a cupful for yourself.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.