As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.
To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
Canadians are often a friendly bunch.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.
Every single record I have is a fossil.
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
