When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

God can renew your marriage and transform it into something better than you can imagine.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

To understand all is to forgive all.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.