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" It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. "

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" I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. "

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" All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it. "

" You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. "

" There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. "

" Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. "

" Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. "

" 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. "

" Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. "

" If a song was ever good, it's still good. "

" We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. "

" Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there. "

" I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest. "

" Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. "

" I don't like to think too far ahead. "

" A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. "

" The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. "

" Freedom is control in your own life. "

" America, to me, is freedom. "

" When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. "

" When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. "

" I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? "

" We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. "

" I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. "

" When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind. "

" Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. "

" Great songs stand out wherever they're from. "

" Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. "

" Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. "

" I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. "