Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.
The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.
I remember everything. What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. You could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
No matter how much you’ve sinned, no matter how much you’ve stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you’ve got from God, don’t give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they’re no good. I don’t throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
You’ve got a song you’re singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you’ve got to make them think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’
Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
God Ain’t no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.