I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.
You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?
I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.
It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
You have to be very careful with women friends.
I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!
I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.