I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.