“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.”

Help!!!! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines.

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women’s magazines.

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.