When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.