Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The poetry of country music will survive.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.