The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

It's so surreal being here.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Here, in L.A., trust me, there will be fireworks from the canapés right through to the desserts.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

I'm happy as a dog with two dicks

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.