What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Children are resilient - they can always find a way to play.

Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do.

Bad habits die hard...........❤ #livingforlove ❤ #rebelheart

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

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