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

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.

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.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

J: You will not believe what Mom is doing.M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.