A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.

If you have time today, so let's show you some strange stone.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

Develop a depression.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.