You can't define the ache that's in George's voice. It's just something inherently him. It doesn't need definition. It doesn't need clarification. It….

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least..

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made..

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin..

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands….

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff..

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner..

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman..

It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It ….

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they w….

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contempo….

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records th….

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value..

When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobo….

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things..

There ain't no future in the past..

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numb….

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - i….

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character..

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you..

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous..