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" You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can. "

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

From Time To Time

" You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. "

" Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. "

" I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. "

" I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. "

" I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. "

" I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a romantic slob! "

" 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. "

" Freedom is control in your own life. "

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

Friends And Family

" Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. "

" I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. "

" If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. "

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

" Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove. "

" If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. "

" But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me! "

" I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around. "

" I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. "

" You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection. "

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

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

" I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! "

" I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines. "

" When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. "

" 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. "

" 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. "