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

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

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

I like myself better when I`m writing regularly.

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

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that`s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

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?

I didn`t come here and I ain`t leavin`.

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

I got along without you before I met you and I`ll get along without you a long time after you`re gone.

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

Most of the stuff I`ve read about me has been true.

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

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

As long as there`s a few farmers out there, we`ll keep fighting for them.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

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

We`re still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let`s all have another round.