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.

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

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.

A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.