Pastoral Resources

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.