Oklahoma's always been good to 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?..

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?''No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,

Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.