Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

I haven't been on a date in awhile. I went on maybe two dates in my whole life.

Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

Won't you ride my white horse?