I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

I just love music in general. I've been a fan of all different kinds of music since I can remember.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

I don't like to work with stylists - I find the relationship too intimidating - but I love fashion.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.

I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

It's so much more interesting when you're human. I hate making mistakes, but I'm not afraid of 'em.

My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

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