I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

You are only as big as your dreams.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.