I don't do the same show on any two nights.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.

The heart has the ability to drive your reality, put into action by your thoughts and intuition.

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.