My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on..

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to rest….

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the rad….

The future has a lot to do with the past..

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us..

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time..

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from..

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me….

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head..

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and t….

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet..

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues..

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading..

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food..

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt..

Control success before it controls you..

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be..

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Ro….

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used t….

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think ….

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what….