I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

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?..

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

There are two things that turn a boy into a man

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I always wanted to rebel.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

The adventure of life is to learn.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.