I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

You're lookin' so good in what's left of those blue jeans Drip of honey on the money maker gotta be The best buzz I'm ever gonna find Hey, I'm a little drunk on you And high on summertime

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

The grammarians are arguing.

One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?