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A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.
I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.
Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.
If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.
I have many, many voices. I talk to my dogs like in the strangest voices you can imagine.
In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.
Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit.
I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.
I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.
A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.
I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.
I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.
If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
I always say that tolerance doesn't depend on a country, because there is hate everywhere.
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.
In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.
I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.
I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.
When you live with someone on the bus, for four days a week, you really have to get along.
If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.