I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

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.

Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be inside them.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.