- I can't even imagine what Hank Garland would have become had he not been in that accident. You're talking about 40 years of lost innovation that could have come only from him.
- To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
- No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.
- Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
- When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
- When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
- Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
- As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
- Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
- That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
- I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'
- I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
- I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.
- It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.
- My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.
- Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
- If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
- I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
- I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.
- In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
- I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!
- It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
- Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
- I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
- You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.
- Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.
- I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
- I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?
- I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.
- My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
- Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.
- I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.
- I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
- I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
- I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.
- When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.
- I've been on the road I think probably three years.
- I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
- If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.
- I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
- I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
- Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.
- If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.
- Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
- I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.
- If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
- I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
- The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
- No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person.
- When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
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