“Life is like therapy – real expensive and no guarantees.”
“I’m much too young to feel this damn old.”
“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.”
“Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.”
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you’ve got to go against the grain.”
“Time is on the side of all things good”
“Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith”
“If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I’d like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.”
“Life’s gonna run you over if you don’t get goin.”
“There’s a difference between knowing what’s on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.”
“That old star that you been wishin’ on is shining mighty bright, but it’s the fire inside your heart that’s gonna lead you to the light.”
“Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.”
“Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life”
“Life is not tried it is merely survived when you’re standing outside the fire”
“Life is like therapy – real expensive and no guarantees”
“The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you’re having, tomorrow’s going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.”
“James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.”
“A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer’s just a vessel that must follow where it goes.”
“You see in all my life I’ve never found what I couldn’t resist, what I couldn’t turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.”
“A mistake isn’t a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.”
“Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama’s in the graveyard, Papa’s in the pen.”
“I’ve never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I’ve stayed awake over chances I didn’t take.”
“Heaven’s not beyond the clouds, it’s just beyond the fear. No, heaven’s not beyond the clouds, it’s just for us to find it here.”
“Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I’m wearing will be fit for a king.”
“Don’t let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.”
“A fan’s love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I’m in love with.”
“People aren’t always themselves. They’re always holding back something.”
“Well I wrote our names a thousand times…just to see yours sitting next to mine”
“She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.”
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
“Dreams can come true with God’s great angels like you.”
“I’ll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, ‘Til the river runs dry.”
“People loving people. That’s the enemy of everything that’s evil”
“Whatever I do, I hope it’s quality, I hope it’s something that’s class.”
“It’s the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.”
“I’d much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what’s on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!”
“There’s a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we’ve done, we can undo, if our heart’s in the right place.”
“When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.”
“I could’ve missed the pain, but I would’ve missed the dance.”
“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”
“If you’re gonna leave your mark, you can’t follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.”
“I’m not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.”
“I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can’t get there.”
“They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.”
“What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.”
“The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.”
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
“Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide”
“It’s funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!”
“Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.”
“Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.”
“What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.”
“I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.”
“When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.”
“One day I’ll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.”
“True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.”
“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy”
“No one will ever touch Elvis”
“When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.”
“Any time I’m in a moving thing, like an airplane, I’m usually asleep before we even get on our way”
“Time is on the side of all things good.”
“Sometimes I thank God… for cheeseburgers.”
“Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.”
“Just keep taking chances and having fun.”
“As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone”
“The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what’s behind us never knowing what’s in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore”
“It’ll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced”
“I’ve got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.”
“But you’ve got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it’s not enough just to stand outside the fire.”
“I don’t fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you’ve done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward”