"As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told."

“I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

“I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.”

“We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.”

“We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

“Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.”

“If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.”