When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

Be happy for what you have.

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.