Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.

He didn’t even know what it was, Vishous.” “The tux?” V lit a hand-rolled. “Of course he didn’t. He’s a real male.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.