“I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.”

We really don’t have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

I’m pretty satisfied with how ‘Postcard’ turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense.

It’s a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It’s incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

There’s no way to learn how to write a hit song. There’s no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman’s right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..

Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She’s been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I’m a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.