I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

You win the fight by fighting.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

I grew up with action movies in my head.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

It's when we're inches apart and not speaking or touching each other that I feel that we are miles apart.

Education is liberation, knowledge is power.

School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.