Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

A country song is a song about life.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn

Greatness starts from bearing the willingness to embrace your uniqueness at all times.

If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast.