What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.

Sometimes you just have to take the pie in the face.

The one thing that tackle wasn't was high and dangerous.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.