I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Go Forward and Chase your Dreams. Never let them Go Back!!

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Spread the sickness, infect the world.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God