You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Buried treasure isn't worth much.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.