I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

I'm drowning in whiskey river.