Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Power thrills, consistency kills.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Long before I was a star, I was a fan.

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.