When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

There ain't no future in the past.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting.

‎"The best of men are just men at best.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.