Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.

Skill to do comes of doing.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.