The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.