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

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

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.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers