You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.

Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

I make music for people to feel happy with my music and the people that actually want to support me, that's all I care about. I care about the people that want the music. I make the music for them.

Clark Gable once said to me, "'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!"

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.