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I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.
Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.
If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence
We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get.
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.
At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.
With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.
It doesn't matter how much you flirt the whole day, at night you'll always end up thinking about the one you truly love.
I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion.
I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
Once I decided to be a different person on stage, I got the chance to be larger than life and over the top, which I love.
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.
If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.
My outfits also need to be low-key. I'm a huge fan of boots, sandals, jeans and tank tops! Anything I can move in easily.
The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.
As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business to be judged.
I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.
You lead me and keep me from falling. You carry me close to Your heart. And surely Your goodness and mercy will follow me.
I grew up in a small Austrian village, a quite conservative one, and I was the weird little boy always dressing as a girl.
The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.