I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

The poetry of country music will survive.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.

Everything...affects everything

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.