The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

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.

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

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

The truth is no longer hidden. Now people are hidding from the truth

When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.