I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.
I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream. . . allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.
The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.