I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow, that's stupid. But live your life like it's a story that you would want to tell someone else. A little fun, a little exciting, a little sexy, and always off key.

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.