If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.