I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

All I want to do is change the world.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.