“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.”

When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.

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

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

Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha’s a fine thing.

I’m drowning in whiskey river.

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

The life I love is making music with my friends.

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

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.

If a song was ever good, it’s still good.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.