Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.