It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.