Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I'll be here where the heart is

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

The European public has always been great to me.

You can't have the rainbow without the storm.

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?