I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

We'll bring out the Elvis TV trays.

The drinking bone is connected to the party bone, the party bone is connected to the staying out all night long.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.

Something inside of me began to tear.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

love means breaking all the rules

Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends - well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.