We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

You certainly do have strange dreams.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.