Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

I didn’t know that when your best friend falls in love, you do a little bit, too.

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.