Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

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.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.