When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth..

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the countr….

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't..

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid..

You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way..

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front..

So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda.….

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eig….

[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to al….

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real..

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer p….

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once..

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares..

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack..

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing..

Things do tend to come around when the time is right though..

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience..

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give ….

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become neces….

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to….