The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.