If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.

Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Diligence includes long – suffering

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.