If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

A country song is a song about life.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

Good deeds are only done when there's a profit margin.

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.