It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.