All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!
Oklahoma's always been good to me.
I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song. . . somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream
"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood. . . "
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story. . . we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.