I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.