I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

Life. Is a sentence, therein, weave your story toward freedom.

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.

It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.