American Quotes

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

We can get rid of red tape.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.