The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power

A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent.

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

So, blind to Someone I must be.