It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.