That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started