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.

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

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.