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.

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.

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.

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.