11. “There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness—it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.”
12. “We don’t teach kids how to feel, we don’t give them the words to go by.”
13. “My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.”
14. “I think more about the family now. That’s an interesting progression for me.”
15. “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.”
16. “At times I’ve got a really big ego. But I’ll tell you the best thing about me. I’m some guy’s dad; I’m some little gal’s dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie’s husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate’s father, boy, that’s enough for me to be remembered by. That’s more than enough.”
17. “I don’t want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.”
18. “I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can’t communicate.”
19. “There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.”
20. “I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.”