In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.