I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.

When I said I do, I meant that I will, 'till the end of all time.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.