Guitar playing isn't really for everybody..

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. ….

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it..

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never..

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of l….

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you'r….

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone..

Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of governmen….

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award..

There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all….

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a….

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life..

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it..

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music..

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one..

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is..

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark..

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come..

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in genera….