Believe, don’t fear, believe.
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.
Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.
I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.
I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.