I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

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.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.