When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

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!

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

those who have loved are those that have found God

She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue