“When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.”

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

If they know you’re a nibbler, they’re going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you’re more aggressive.

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn’t choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I’m home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I’ll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don’t have time to hate.

If you’re callin’ ’bout my heart, it’s still yours / I should’ve listened to it a little more / Then it wouldn’t have taken me so long / To know where I belong

I’m not that smart, but I’m smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.

If I have one, I’ll have thirteen. No, there ain’t no in-betwee. Cuz the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn’t even old enough to have things like that.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you’re going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they’re not afraid to let show.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.

Defense is superior to opulence.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.