The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

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.

...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.

If you did not live to love, what have you live for?

All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

The future is unwritten.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.