To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.