I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.

Let us do those things that our heart is asking us to do and from this day forth allow all souls that leave our presence feeling honored and deeply loved.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.