You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Destiny is the point where your circumstances and your actions coincide.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.