I am a lineman for the county.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

People ask you questions so you can reveal to them God’s intention

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

Biggest influence: my mother.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.