I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.