I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.
I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.
You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.
I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is. . . " I don't think that ever existed.
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.