To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

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.

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.

All men are equal before fish.

It’s impossible to know what sin is if we don’t know what God says.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

The things surrounding you in your home serve as subliminal reminders of you who are.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had