I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

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?..

No mere mortal man can do what Christ Jesus did?

The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Good words are better than bad strokes.