I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

There ain't no future in the past.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

He listens when I talk.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.