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 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.

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.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources

You are alive in me.

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.

The key to being a successful pastor is to be able to minister supernaturally, be a pastor without tears, in learning of Him, learning from His life.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.