If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, Is that a song? I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

I'm not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I'm as lonely as any man around, I just don't like to pick 'em up and lay 'em down.