"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

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"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

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"I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really."

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"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing."

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"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."

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"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."

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"If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about."

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"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."

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"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."

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"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."

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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."

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"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."

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"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."

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