It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

The sword has no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage

If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.

let my heart always belike it is...this very momentready to explode...with lovea violent rainstorm...with no streamno ocean vast enoughto flow into.

Imagination encircles the world.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.