I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Moving on feels heavy because you have been weighed down by fear

When you feel that you are loved, you feel the happiness.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.