You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

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.

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.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Living life is a courageous act.

Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.