We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.