I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.