It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It’s what you leave behind you when you go.
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.
There’s a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
There’s a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what’s good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.
I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.
You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn’t have a prayer, when Mama prayed.
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won’t let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.
I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.
I don’t know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you’re going to go down.