I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.
The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.
Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.
