Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

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.

There ain't no future in the past.

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 am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

People are going to think I'm crazy.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

I ask you to make INSTITUTE a PRIORITY.