How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Feel the love, be the love, to spread the love.

People who discriminate understand that they are a stranger to others.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free.