I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

However, you forgot our anniversary date, but it does not matter because I know that you may have forgotten the date but you haven't forgotten my value in your life.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and over the dusking sky.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.