Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Long before I was a star, I was a fan.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

... at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

I'm just a dreamer I dream my life away i'm just a dreamer Who dreams of better days