“I don’t know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business.”

I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit.

But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them.

I don’t know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn’t as efficient.

The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He’s a great guitar player.

He was with the Gigolo Ants before, and he’s really good.

I’m not sure if he’ll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he’s the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything.

It doesn’t always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you’re playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that’s sort of an expensive proposition.

Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last.

We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out on tour with us now.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.

Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

I haven’t come to you only to take , I haven’t come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.