After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

If you don't make history, you just become history!

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like.

Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."

I don't think people are skeptical. I think people appreciate the authenticity, actually. I think people are looking for authentic leaders these days and being yourself.

An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.