“I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.”
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“As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!”
“I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.”
“People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.”
“I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.”
“Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.”
“Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.”
“Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.”
“People will use you as long as you let them.”
“I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.”
“There's a lot of women now with a whole lot of style but they are not necessarily song stylists. Some of their style is a lot like me and a lot of people sound a lot alike - you can't tell them apart.”
“If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.”
“I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'”
“There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].”
“Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'”
“If you love people, you take them on trust.”
“I'm not really the give TVs or turkeys kind of guy. I feel like we can do more good by inspiring people wholeheartedly and truthfully than we can just by giving them something because that creates a cycle of expecting you to give them something.”
“Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.”
“Donald Trump has got old-time loyalty, that's why people like him. He keeps his promises. He said he was going to take care of the coal miners and he stayed with the coal miners. People tell him there's no coal, he still stuck with them. He's attuned to them. The air and the pollution, it's all there, but he sticks to what he says he's going to do.”
“People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.”