It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

She is my "Soul Dog" and I totally get it now.

Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher) So do you. (Julian) Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)