Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

I do not think, Prospero, ' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.