Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.