One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

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!

This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.

What other thing, Eve?""I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Everyone is part of you.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

No one who had any sense has ever liked school.