My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

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?..

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

You don't need to look smart for the one who loves you a lot

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?