“This table’s a bit like life. It’s a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus”

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It’s actually the opposite of that. It’s realizing that we’re all humans, and that’s why God sent his Son to this earth – to save people.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

I don’t think there’s any accidents in my life.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I’m from.

Well, I can’t write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

I’m so miserable without you, it’s almost as if you’re here!

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

Don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don’t think it’d understand.

My kids learned to color on this table. There’s been a lot that’s went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to ‘Good Hearted Woman.’ Sitting in that chair.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

This seems quite good, a bit familiar.’ Then I realise … It’s one of my movies. It’s a pretty odd feeling.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.