Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

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?..

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Seriously, ” the banker went on, “what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.”“Murder.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.