To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential.

Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.

Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do.

The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

What you are comes to you.

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.