I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.