Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.