American Quotes

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.