That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.