A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.