Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I'm exploiting them.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.