I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.