I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

Give yourself a break from any holy book andstart looking at others as you want to be looked at.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.