He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The poetry of country music will survive.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

It's the old headpiece that makes a man, the rest is all rubbish.

We lose our soul, to find our life.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Why look in the dark for light?

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.