Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

Don't it make my brown eyes blue?

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

I think we all have a role to play in life.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.