American Quotes

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.