When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

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.

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

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!

With the wings of knowledge, it is easier to fly toward the blue sky of wisdom.

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.