Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.