Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.

Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.