Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

Christmas was an intentionally intentional decision of the greatest sort ever devised that would result in the greatest cost ever conceived

Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.