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

Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.

When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well-adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind.

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

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.

On the road again, goin’ places that I’ve never been. Seein’ things that I may never see again, and I can’t wait to get on the road again.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.

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

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.