My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don’t want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they’re not having a great time of life.
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
Just when I think it couldn’t get any bigger, ‘Tuskegee’ reaches a new level of success.
I’m a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.
Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.
When will we ever learn, there’s nowhere else we can turn.
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don’t like it! Here’s what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It’s cleansing.
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.
I don’t think I’m going to be priest material.
People, as critical as it looks, we’re OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn’t die, it just moved to Nashville.
Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I’m dressed to kill in my own mind. They’ll say to me, ‘Dad, you’re not going out there looking like that are you?’ If that doesn’t kill a star, I don’t know what does!
I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.
Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I’m not happy when I try to fake it.