I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Both of my parents were musicians.

With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.

I don't want this heart, it's split in two.

No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

I really don't get nervous when I perform - it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!

Resignation is just simply out of the question.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.