Let the Lord judge the criminals.

I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my...

The turning point really is just knowing you’re an imbecile.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can...

Woman are complex creatures.

The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

It’s pure Black Label. It’s about violence and booze. That’s all it is. There is no plan.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it’s always cool. The kids are amazing.

There’s a whole lot of songs that men just can’t do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Well. I’m probably not loving myself like I should, but I’m really trying.

I had to play a George Harrison song at a benefit a couple nights ago, and it was really hard for me. Obviously it wasn’t my world.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven’t done before, things I’ve been going through in my life.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin’ her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting’ to do all the things that she would have wanted to...

I just always remembered that, not that it pushed me to be a singer, but I don’t know why he said that. Hee Haw was a big part of my life, musically.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail… and I’d never heard it before in my life.

Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

I don’t have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I’m glad I don’t have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

I do think song writing is a man’s game. It requires push, energy, movement, mixing; it is a field that is and has been dominated by men.

I don’t think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

We can even sing off key, but if it’s produced properly it can be a hit.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it’s good for the heart.

I miss my singing career very much.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I’m kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I’m actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that’s just part of my personality.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn’t go to.

There are two kinds of worries – those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing. It’s hard work writing and recording music, and it’s morally wrong to steal it.

But, when it comes to all the other little instruments, of which there’s a lot in the stuff I’ve done the last couple of years, I do it all myself.

Without the music it was kind of hard to tell. People were very confused whether you’re allowed to laugh at the stuff that was happening.

And it’s just something that’s always come very naturally to me. And I built about, I don’t know, six, seven, eight guitars in Texas in the late 60s.

I ain’t got much education, but I got some sense.

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

I think he might miss everything he used to do but I don’t know that for a fact. His wife is probably the only one that does. A sweet lady.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn’t understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I...

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Well, you know, back then there wasn’t many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

Talent is being able to please people.

That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on – getting to the artist, getting...

I believe people can move things with their minds.