What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.
It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.
Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.
I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.