I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

When someone steals your heart not even the law can help you.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.

You never lose until you actually give up.

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.