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.

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.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.