If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.