There ain't no future in the past.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of someone else.

He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.