I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

A country song is a song about life.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.