I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

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 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.

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.