I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

When I said I do, I meant that I will, 'till the end of all time.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.

The greatest achievement is self awareness.

I can't say enough how important is the spiritual lifeto know God is with you all the timegives you confidence

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.

Work like you don't need the money.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.