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.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

You are almost never cool to your children.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

I love you if you love me.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.