Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

The important thing to remember is not to forget

Information is the coin of war.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

We cannot walk alone.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.