Music is important.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.

I'm very happy. I was little scared because it's such a big bite.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.