What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.