I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

There ain't no future in the past.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

Life is the gift of being able to do something, so use it

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

I love polarizing people.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.