By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

Know you got a roommate, call me when it's no one there. Put the key under the mat and you know I'll be over there

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

President Obama wants to raise taxes on the country's richest people. And you thought Donald Trump hated him before.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.