I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

A good song never gets old.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Every song is like a painting.