I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

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.

You were never born to make money. You were born to enjoy life and be happy. Instead you learned to make money and forgot how to be happy.

I’ve never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.