The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.