I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

I think most performers are just lazy.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Always let your heart sing

Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.