Everybody has problems.

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.

For every man there is a deep longing

Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers